wheelband
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
wheelband (plural wheelbands)
- (dated) The tyre of a wheel.
- 1773, Thomas Wilson, The Pitman's Pay (poem):
- Yor high-flown cheps oft fyel and brick,
But we hev a'ways yet been yable
Te keep the wheelband i' the nick
Though oft wi' but a bareish tyeble.
References[edit]
- “wheelband”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.